sense, we try to make connections between civilizations and time

periods. Historians have attempted to discover universal constants of

human nature, a bond that forms from continent to continent, human

being to human being. Is there a constant quality that all peoples

posses, and is reflected in all civilizations? Indeed, it is

extremely difficult to make generalizations about centuries of modern

history. To say that something is true of all of history is virtually

impossible, as a counter-example exists for just about anything that

can be said of any group of civilizations. To say that all religions

are spread by violence is equally unfair and untrue - because

contrasted religions has been spread in exceedingly diverse regions of

the world, by vastly different cultures. Islam, as a prime example,

has been characterized inequitably by historians and the media as a

religion of violence. To put it bluntly, as this article does, "Islam

was mainly spread through Arab territorial conquests (Sudo, 4)."

However, upon examination, it is not fair to make the generalization

that Islam is a religion of violence, and one not

(Mohammed and Islam,1)." Mohammed was not a purely violent man, but

Christian, Hindu, and Aztec government, all which had strong ties to

their government often was not. However, the same cannot be said of

non-violent throughout the centuries, when the first Muslim invaders

are echoes of past religious exploits in places such as Latin America,

Islamic people, who attracted converts from an economic standpoint,

classes, that are totally unchangeable, and are products of the

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